Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Runtime cleaner?

Darkworld opened this issue on Nov 15, 2008 · 28 posts


Klebnor posted Thu, 11 December 2008 at 7:19 AM

Thanks, Dizzi and EnglishBob.

I have Poser File Organizer from Dimension3D, and it does an acceptable job of fixing references, but it is slow (on massive runtimes) and I find the interface daunting.  One must spend a lot of time researching what each option means to get the scan result desired.  Because it stops when it can't find a reference, one must babysit the scan and make a choice whenever a missing texture or other reference file is encountered.  This takes quite a while on runtimes with thousands of files.

It also indicates it can be used to move content, however, my experience is that when you move content, it leaves all the ancillary files where they are and just changes the references in the library object files you move to refer back to the old runtime.  This obviously negates the intent of splitting a runtime as the morphs, textures and geometries stay in the old runtime which remains huge.  I do not see such transfer capability in the Runtime Zip and Repair product.

I also have, and use frequently, Morphing Clothes from Dimension3D.  This is perhaps the best utility I have ever seen for Poser (DAZ, Carrara).  It adds morphs from a character object to a clothing object and it works extremely well in my experience.  If you have a character with specific body morphs you can easily add them to any piece of clothing.

What I really want to know is whether CRPro will transfer a piece of content, with all its ancillary files, from one Runtime to another - cleaning up after itself.  Right now the only option I know of is to completely delete the specific runtime and reinstall all content into two new Runtimes.  This is obviously the best method (although any alterations made to individual files is lost in the process along with any newly created content saved in the Runtime) but it is time consuming.

Any advice on CPPro II from users is appreciated.

Klebnor

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